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Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Language
English
Description
The fate of a young nation rests in the hands of a reluctant warrior in the thrilling sixth volume of the New York Times bestselling Saxon Tales series. Following the intrigue and action of The Burning Land and Sword Song, this latest chapter in Bernard Cornwell's epic saga of England is a gripping tale of divided loyalties and mounting chaos. At a crucial moment in time, as Alfred the Great lays dying, the fate of all--Angles, Saxons, and Vikings...
Author
Series
Warrior volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Uhtred, a dispossessed English nobleman, finds his life changed by Iseult, a powerful sorceress, as he rediscovers the deep loyalty he feels for his native country and joins King Alfred to defend themselves against the Vikings.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Returning to his northern home, Uhtred of Bebbanburg finds himself caught up in the takeover crusade of a self-proclaimed ruler of Northumbria, a situation that culminates in a midnight siege on a seemingly impregnable city.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
299 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell returns to his epic Saxon Tales saga with The Pagan Lord, a dramatic story of divided loyalties, bloody battles, and the struggle to unite Britain.At the onset of the tenth century, England is in turmoil. Alfred the Great is dead and Edward his son reigns as king. Wessex survives but peace cannot hold: the Danes in the north, led by Viking Cnut Longsword, stand ready to invade and will never rest...
Author
Series
Warrior volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Captured and raised by Danes in the ninth century, dispossessed nobleman Uhtred witnesses the unexpected defeat of his adoptive Viking clan by Alfred of Wessex and longs to recover his father's land.
Author
Series
Saxon tales/Last Kingdom volume 9
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
299 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
With a fragile peace between Wessex, Mercia, and East Anglia loyalties and ambitions are put to the test when forces gather against the kingdom's greatest warrior, Uhtred of Bebbanburg.
Author
Series
Warrior volume 4
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
xv, 311 p. : map ; cm.
Language
English
Description
Alfred of Wessex survives the Danish invasion only to find the Saxons targeted by Vikings, a conflict during which he harnesses the abilities of the formidable warrior Uhtred.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 509 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 865, a great Viking army landed in East Anglia, precipitating a series of wars that would last until the middle of the following century. It was in this time of crisis that the modern kingdoms of Britain were born. In their responses to the Viking threat, these kingdoms forged their identities as hybrid cultures: vibrant and entrepreneurial peoples adapting to instability and opportunity.Traditionally, Alfred the Great is cast as the central player...
11) Hitchcock
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
1985
Language
English
Description
Dialogue between Truffaut and Hitchcock.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 412 p. : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's summer, 1936. The writer, Josephine Tey, joins her friends in the holiday village of Portmeirion to celebrate her fortieth birthday. Alfred Hitchcock and his wife, Alma Reville, are there to sign a deal to film Josephine's novel, "A Shilling for Candles", and Hitchcock has one or two tricks up his sleeve to keep the holiday party entertained.
Author
Series
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
"The final installment in Bernard Cornwell's bestselling Saxon Tales series, chronicling the epic story of the making of England. England is under attack. Chaos reigns. Northumbria, the last kingdom, is threatened by armies from all sides, by land and sea, and only one man stands in their way. Torn between loyalty and sworn oaths, the warrior king Lord Uhtred of Bebbanburg faces his greatest ever battle - and prepares for his ultimate fate."--Publisher's...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
429 p.
Language
English
Description
"Robert Harris returns to the thrilling historical fiction he has so brilliantly made his own. This is the story of the infamous Dreyfus affair told as a chillingly dark, hard-edged novel of conspiracy and espionage. Paris in 1895. Alfred Dreyfus, a young Jewish officer, has just been convicted of treason, sentenced to life imprisonment at Devil's Island, and stripped of his rank in front of a baying crowd of twenty-thousand. Among the witnesses...
Publisher
Millennium Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1983, a group of childhood friends pulled off the crime of the century: kidnapping one of the richest men in the world, the heir of the Heineken beer empire. The shocking capture, by gunpoint in broad daylight on the streets of Amsterdam, resulted in the largest ransom ever paid for a kidnapped individual. It was truly the perfect crime, until they got away with it. Based on a true story.
